This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.